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August 2013

August 10, 2013
Ha! That would be a laugh. Blogger tells me that the "comment on other blogs...
August 08, 2013
(Sorry, this is a long one -- bear with me!)So a week or so ago,...
August 07, 2013
Ugh -- even that term is an irritant to me.  We use the suffix "-free"...
August 07, 2013
With respect to the birth rate, that is.Their TFR (total fertility rate) is 1.4 children...
August 06, 2013
So the AEI has put out a new proposal for a VoucherCare-like healthcare system, which...
August 06, 2013
So a while back, I posted about living wage calculators. And here's what I'm thinking:...
August 06, 2013
It's not hard to find, actually.  Pretty much the first hit on "Illinois food stamps"...
August 04, 2013
Ford Heights has no library.  The library taxing district takes in $20,000 per year, because...

July 2013

July 30, 2013
So I've been reading What to Expect When No One's Expecting:  America's Coming Demographic Disaster,...
July 29, 2013
That's the claim of the new book by Helen Smith. I have in mind to...
July 28, 2013
Detroit has a long history of Big Projects motivated by the hope that, this time,...
July 27, 2013
Start with Fresh Medicine by Philip Bredesen.  (It's even a bargain book at Amazon.com and...
July 27, 2013
Is College Worth It?  That's the lead article in this summer's Notre Dame Magazine.  Not...
July 27, 2013
"It has taken more than a half-century for Detroit to fall this low, and the...
July 26, 2013
This is awful.  Really, really shows that the Powers that Be in Detroit still don't...
July 26, 2013
Healthcare in the United States is a complex issue, but there are, ultimately, two categories...
July 25, 2013
What do I think of Catastrophic/high deductible plans?They have their plusses and minuses.  My employer...
July 25, 2013
So it seems that Congress is considering tax reform again.  The last time this was...
July 24, 2013
Have you ever looked at the definition of a food desert?  The USDA tool has changed...
July 24, 2013
OK, so I've gotten some pushback from my modest number of readers (small gripe about...
July 23, 2013
This is, in broad outlines, the content of a recent unpublished letter to the editor,...
July 22, 2013
OK, so I said in my last post that "the State has the ultimate responsibility...
July 22, 2013
So what I really wanted to do with this blog is, in part at least, to...
July 21, 2013
One thing that’s happening here, in the emerging narrative of Martin perceiving himself as being...
July 20, 2013
Remember how the backruptcy judge split General Motors into two:  Old GM, with all the...
July 20, 2013
1)  log onto www.realtor.com.2)  look at all listings for Detroit, and play with the slider...
July 19, 2013
I was all set to work on my the things I want to write about...
July 19, 2013
What a mess!In the private sector, employers cannot cut back accrued pension benefits (though they...
July 19, 2013
So Ann Althouse is talking clotheslines now.I remember clotheslines, and I'm not that old.  Mom...
July 19, 2013
No, I don't have a link.  It's in the papers.  The biggest unknown is what...
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